Frequently asked questions

We can do a lease for art you find at a gallery in Canada or abroad. We have established relationships with the galleries we have links to on our site. However, if you have a piece of art that you would like from any gallery, just let us know and we will call them. We will explain the process and work with them on setting up your lease.

Once you know the cost of your artwork before GST/HST, then put that amount in our lease calculator on this web-site. It will show you the monthly payment for your lease before and after taxes in various provinces. You will see that the payments are for leases of different lengths. These are our standard rates upon approval of credit. For leases larger than this amount, please contact us for a quote.

‘Yes, you can. Just complete and sign the application on this page and fax it or scan it and email it to us. Fill in a maximum price for a painting and we will provide you with various payments options.

Just print off and complete the application on this web-site. If this is not convenient, phone, email or fax us to send you an application by snail mail or fax. You would then complete the application, sign it and fax it back to us or scan it and send it by email. If you have already selected a painting, please include the name of the gallery on the top of the page so we can contact them.

If you prefer, you can give your completed application to your gallery to send along to us.

The company or business leasing artwork is responsible for its safety. Therefore, the lease requires that you include it in your assets insured. In the event the art is damaged or destroyed, you are responsible for the lease payments until the end of the lease unless the insurance covers the amount.

You pay taxes based on the province where the artwork is to have its home. So if you find the art you want to lease in one province but you live in a different province, it is the province where you and the art will live that is the one we use to calculate the taxes on payments. The monthly payment before tax is calculated based on the cost of the art before tax.

We process your payment each month from your bank by Pre-authorized payment/debit (PAP). The date is usually the day you pick up the art, but we can accommodate another date of the month if you request this. Regretfully, we do not accept credit card payments.

We will do a lease on 100% of the cost of artwork from $500 to $25,000 and are happy to consider larger amounts if you contact us. A lease can be for one or more pieces of art at a time. The lease can be 12 to 48 months.

There is a small buy-out at the end of the lease and when this is paid, we will transfer ownerhip of the art to you. Please look at the Monthly Payment calculator to show you the buy-out for the cost of a paimting you enter.

We can do a lease for someone in any province or territory in Canada. We can also do a lease for someone in the United States as long as they have a bank account in Canada from which the monthly payments can be made. This could be either a USD or CAD account.